it is pretty clear trump would pardon or vacate any fine against a right winger org.

The president does not yet have pardoning power over civil judgements. Maybe a constitutional amendment to do that is coming, but we haven't had a vote on it yet.

Some good has come from promoting more user speech online, but also a lot of bullying, harassment, echo chambers, doxxing, stochastic terrorism, and so on.

You make it sound as dangerous as a 1775 soap box that people like Sam Adams would stand upon and shout from, or a pamphlet-printing-press that someone like Thomas Paine might use, where in both cases the goal was often to rowse the rabble into protest and action.

But is the internet really that dangerous?

So ... super cheap code monkeys are being replaced by LLMs?

There really isn't any other way to read that.

"The platforms" are, at best, a percent of the internet.

Sign up for a linode, put up any sort of website you can imagine on it, and explain why you would choose for the algorithms you write or install, to work the way that you fear.

It doesn't have to be as bad as you say, unless you want it. That's essential freedom.

This would result in suppression of anti Trump opinion

It will result in suppression of all anti- power/wealth opinion, i.e. all criticism of government or big-pocketed business.

This change is sponsored by litigious motherfuckers. Trump is only the instance-du-jour, a few percent of the overall threat, though very much a shining example of it.

... on fake-Twitter, and Youtube. At least if we go by the /. summary, lol

It's not unreasonable in and of itself.

The question is how it will be applied. Is it going to be just random bias against LLM assistance, or is it just going to be reasonable code quality standards? (Which ... should have been in place anyway?).

Middle management and above:

"Hey, Mista Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you".

The last three corporate hackers in a mop closet somewhere:

"Still had the idea, though."

You're thinking of the modern civilized places. (Do the weirdos consider those joints woke?)

The one I used to live near was the original Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge, which burned anthracite until it closed.

I have no problems with coal-fired pizza joints and similar. The amount of pollution from this is minuscule, and in general small-scale, artisanal use of stuff doesn't hurt. It isn't that coal is morally evil in and of itself, it is the massively abusive use of it as a routine energy source that's destructive.

Those places suck for the neighbors, though. I lived a few blocks from a coal-oven pizza place for a few years. Only smelled it sometimes when the wind shifted the right way, but I would not want to live any closer to one.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

It seems to me that, if you were developing something like this, you'd want to write the encryption and decryption code separately from the non-trivial key management code, so that you can unlock it easily if someone accidentally locks the wrong system. You only make the build that doesn't have an obvious key when you're really going to use it. For that matter, it's probably wise to do your demos with the version with the master key, so that potential affiliates can't attack a real target for the demo. Then you give the version that doesn't make it easy to unlock to paying affiliates who aren't SentinelOne. It's not like they'd need to redesign the whole system to generate a random key and not write it in plaintext anywhere.

I don't think "US tech" is really the problem here:

The target has relatives back in China. China says play ball, or your sister gets it.

Because they keep trying to undress in front of my children.

Damn right. I think its important we all band together and get more angry about made up bullshit that isn;'t true for some reason.

The left didn't shoot charlie kirk. A crazed gunman shot charlie kirk.

The right doesn't keep shooting schools up. Crazed gunmen shoot schools up.

If the left or the right take up arms, you'll know it, and it wont be some feckless angerbait celebrity getting popped.